Tag Archives | University of Pennsylvania BDS

This is part of a series of articles based on the program of the upcoming PennBDS conference. Check out this landing page to find out more. Regular readers may have picked up on my fondness for words. And while I’ve sometimes been (legitimately) teased for using more words than may be necessary to make a […]

I’ve written a number of times on the subject of consumer boycotts, and anyone interested in more information and case studies can read about them in the Divest This Guide. To start off, boycotts were rather slow in coming to the US where BDS campaigns focused on divestment for most of the last decade, specifically trying […]

This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series More SillinessI’ve been attempting to generate all new material in this month’s series of postings paralleling the PennBDS conference agenda, rather than fall back on a “clip show” of previous postings. But the next item up on their program (entitled “BDS On Campus I: Divestment Workshop”) […]

This is part of a series of articles based on the program of the upcoming PennBDS conference. Check out this landing page to find out more. In some language (probably Yiddish) there exists a word that combines the notions of chutzpah and clownishness. And if one needed an example to illustrate this concept, one need look no further than […]

This is part of a series of articles based on the program of the upcoming PennBDS conference. Check out this landing page to find out more. When BDS first came on the scene at the beginning of the last decade, it primarily focused on divestment (notably, on five years of failed efforts to get prominent […]

This is part of a series of articles based on the program of the upcoming PennBDS conference. Check out this landing page to find out more. While any discussion involving race in America can trigger some heat, debate over subject such as “BDS and the Black Community” (the next item on the PenBDS agenda), can […]

This is part of a series of articles based on the program of the upcoming PennBDS conference. Check out this landing page to find out more. With a panel discussion entitled “BDS, Hillel and the Question of Anti-Semitism,” our old friends at Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) finally take center stage on the PennBDS agenda. As regulars […]

This is part of a series of articles based on the program of the upcoming PennBDS conference. Check out this landing page to find out more. Generally, I like posts (or series of posts) to have self-contained arguments with links providing access to referenced information and sources, and an occasional link to a longer essay or book meant just […]

This is part of a series of articles based on the program of the upcoming PennBDS conference. Check out this landing page to find out more. While the session at the PennBDS program entitled “Packaging the Movement – Apartheid or Jim Crow” will likely focus on the “Apartheid” and “Jim Crow” parts of that title, I’d like to […]

This is part of a series of articles based on the program of the upcoming PennBDS conference. Check out this landing page to find out more. They recently added a new session to the PennBDS program on “Palestine and the Occupy Movement” (speaker still TBD). (Just as an FYI, I’m doing my best to write these responses in the […]

This is part of a series of articles based on the program of the upcoming PennBDS conference. Check out this landing page to find out more. Economic discussions by BDS supporters tend to focus on just two subjects: (1) The amount of foreign aid received by Israel from the US (which, depending on which BDSers you talk to ranges […]

This is part of a series of articles based on the program of the upcoming PennBDS conference. Check out this landing page to find out more. I’ve been trying to write something new for each session on the PennBDS agenda, but with regard to “Palestine in International Law,” I’ve pretty much already said all I need to here. The […]